Property market
The five-year median is £156,000 from 2 recorded sales in BL2 5AJ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Bolton is £202,770 in June 2026, up 4.9% year on year.
BL2 5AJ
Breightmet · Bolton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bolton
- Ward
- Breightmet
- Local authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton North East
- Postcode district
- BL2
- Postcode sector
- BL2 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL2 5AJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL2
- Postcode sector
- BL2 5
- Latitude
- 53.584797
- Longitude
- -2.392411
- British National Grid easting
- 374,119
- British National Grid northing
- 409,871
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bolton · E08000001
- Electoral ward
- Breightmet · E05014820
- Parish or community
- E43000155
- Westminster constituency
- Bolton North East · E14001110
- Output area
- E00024284
- Lower layer super output area
- Bolton 013E · E01004797
- Middle layer super output area
- Bolton 013 · E02000996
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BL2
Property
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Withins Grove, Bolton, BL2 5AJ | 24 April 2026 | £160,000 |
| 4, Withins Grove, Bolton, BL2 5AJ | 14 September 2021 | £152,000 |
| 2, Withins Grove, Bolton, BL2 5AJ | 12 March 2021 | £210,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 122
- Primary
- 80
- Secondary
- 16
- 232 m
Park School Teaching Service
Academy alternative provision converter
- 268 m
Forwards Centre
Academy alternative provision converter
- 490 m
Red Lane Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- BL2 5 residents
- 10,383
6 female, 12 male
Age bands in BL2 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.3%
2,492 residents
1,327 residents
2,753 residents
2,644 residents
1,660 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BL2 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
44
within 5 km
THE ALASTAIR ROSS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BREIGHTMENT HEALTH CENTRE, BREIGHTMET FOLD LANE, BREIGHTMET, BOLTON, BL2 6NT
ODS code P82018
603 m
THE DUNSTAN PARTNERSHIP
BREIGHTMET HEALTH CENTRE, BREIGHTMET FOLD LANE, BREIGHTMET, BOLTON, BL2 6NT
ODS code P82001
603 m
TONGE FOLD HEALTH CENTRE
HILTON ST, TONGE FOLD, BOLTON, BL2 6DY
ODS code P82011
1.1 km
BRADFORD STREET SURGERY
65 BRADFORD STREET, BOLTON, BL2 1HT
ODS code P82033
1.9 km
CROMPTON VIEW SURGERY
CROMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, 501 CROMPTON WAY, BOLTON, BL1 8UP
ODS code P82607
2.1 km
THE OAKS FAMILY PRACTICE
501 CROMPTON WAY, BOLTON, BL1 8UP
ODS code P82021
2.1 km
HARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
HOUGH FOLD WAY, HARWOOD, BOLTON, BL2 3HQ
ODS code P82016
2.2 km
BOLTON COMMUNITY PRACTICE
WATERS MEETING HEALTH CENTRE, WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code Y03079
2.4 km
BURNSIDE SURGERY
WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code P82025
2.4 km
DR SIDDA'S SURGERY, WATERS MEETING HC
WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code P82625
2.4 km
DR RIZWAN AND DR AWAN
LINDFIELD DRIVE, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82022
2.6 km
HALLIWELL SURGERY 2
LINDFIELD DRIVE, HALLIWELL, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82029
2.6 km
HALLIWELL SURGERY 3
LINDFIELD DRIVE, HALLIWELL, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82626
2.6 km
OCTAGON MEDICAL CENTRE
LEVER CHAMBERS, 27 ASHBURNER STREET, BOLTON, BL1 1SQ
ODS code P82012
2.8 km
LITTLE LEVER HEALTH CENTRE 1
DR HALLIKERI & PARTNERS, 63 MARKET STREET, LITTLE LEVER, BOLTON, BL3 1HH
ODS code P82020
2.9 km
LITTLE LEVER HEALTH CENTRE 2
63 MARKET STREET, LITTLE LEVER, BOLTON, BL3 1HH
ODS code P82036
2.9 km
BEEHIVE SURGERY
108 CRESCENT ROAD, GREAT LEVER, BOLTON, BL3 2JR
ODS code P82616
2.9 km
BOLTON GENERAL PRACTICE
2-4 MOOR LANE, BOLTON, BL1 4TH
ODS code Y02319
2.9 km
SPRING VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
MYTHAM ROAD, LITTLE LEVER, BOLTON, BL3 1HQ
ODS code P82613
3.1 km
BOLTON MEDICAL CENTRE
21 RUPERT STREET, GREAT LEVER, BOLTON, BL3 6PY
ODS code Y02790
3.4 km
Showing 20 of 44 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Withins Drive
BCT · Roscow Fold
- 0.1 miles
Withins Grove
BCT · Roscow Fold
- 0.1 miles
Withins Grove
BCT · Roscow Fold
- 0.1 miles
Withins Drive
BCT · Roscow Fold
- 0.1 miles
Dorchester Avenue
BCT · Roscow Fold
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bolton 013E, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,937 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
122 open schools are in scope, including 80 primary and 16 secondary schools. Park School Teaching Service is the nearest published school at 232 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.